WHERE ARE WE GOING?

GOING BACK TO 1910 this is a photo of Salim Chapel, Devizes which is now being used by the Pentecostal Assemblies of God. Notice all the ladies in HATS!! AND everyone wearing their Sunday BEST! WE also were in Salim Chapel on the way down from the north of England and enjoyed an evening Fellowship with the current congregation led by Pastor David Fiddy. We had not visited them since 1983 but were very glad to still find old friends there.

At the time we were staying in Weston Super Mare with Phillip and Margaret Brayhshaw. Margaret spent almost two years with us in Testimony House in 1974.

She was a single young lady then, and keen to help. She WAS a help, and also took on 4 month old twin boys full time. Both of them grew up to love Jesus, and both now serving Him in full time ministry - how time flies. Big Thanks to Margaret for adventuring herself with us. WE were delighted to be able to spend some very happy days with them as we travelled south to Brixham. No more Church Meeting but we were able to visit old friends and also join in Fellowship with various prayer groups along the way. Some of that time we were Off Line and thus unable to put up a Blog. BUT, today we are back on line and with time to write at least a little something. We are staying with Allan and Margaret Nicholls our long time friends and helpers here in the UK. Allan runs the AENON Trust through which most of our support from UK is sent. He is in a way the Front Man for TFH since he usually is the one that answers questions, and receives gifts first hand for us and on our behalf. He then sends on to us. Thus many of you know him better than you may even know us! We have much to thank them both for.

Today they are hosting a Meeting here for some who may not have a chance to meet up with us as we have travelled around, and tomorrow we shall be ministering in their Fellowship here in Bexleyheath. THEN we shall be staying with Michael and Janet, and THEN back up to Rochdale to take our final leave of our family up there before finally flying home on the 28th June to Kenya. Our final Meeting is expected to be in Barnston, Wirral on Sunday 26th.

We hear from Kenya that food prices are spiraling upwards - maize flour for example has gone up 150% since we left in April. We hear that poverty is SO great that in fact people are taking their own lives in despair as they face starvation,. Yesterday the Catholic Bishop of Eldoret warned that things were also politically no better than they were in 2007 and that we may face yet further troubled times. Ah well! God is with us, and all those who trust in Him, and we are going to need to trust HIM more and more. However, we also see that we are responsible to pray and seek His Guidance for the future. Our time away has helped me and Esther to take a long look back at the whole ministry of TFH. We have noted that not only has the work grown over the 43 years, but the changing economy is also forcing the need to re-assess many matters. We have much to discuss when we get home. We would ask you all to pray with us that we find the perfect will of God. Our son Daryl is in line to take on the Administration when the time comes for me to finally step away from it. His own life and vision has grown and expanded, and it is good to know that the Lord is walking in and with him. He needs your prayers, but also I feel we all need to Thank God for all that He has done in his life over this many year.

Altogether we feel these last three months have become a learning curve for all of us in TFH and that it is is a preparation for what is yet to come - a new chapter, and perhaps a new vision too in many respects. More of this will begin to perculate as the weeks go by. We feel very optimistic that there is something MORE for us all, and that a Blessing on this work has been commanded from on High.

Bless you all for your prayer for us who are away, and for those who have remained waiting on God there in Eldoret. You are all the support of our arms, as we reach out to God for help and strength day by day.

Ever your brother and sister in His Love

John and Esther